I believe the rails hype was quite warranted. Both the framework as well as ruby were probably the largest leap in their space I've witnessed. When rails first

I believe the rails hype was quite warranted. Both the framework as well as ruby were probably the largest leap in their space I've witnessed. When rails first came out, the dominant competitors were Java/spring and all things PHP. The former was an IBM-sponsored attempt to reduce competition using xml-induced suicides. PHP was the land of config.backup.do-not-change-line-endings.php3~. It's incredible how much dhh got right from the start, and I believe the opinionated nature taught a generation of developers how to structure a project. It's unfortunate that ruby stagnated.